I have had the pleasure of working with award winning map maker David Imus creating a series of videos for his website at: Imus Geographics.com/ The video above is a short trailer of highlights from his complete lecture at the Eugene Library earlier this year. If you love maps check out the whole story on his website.

It was a huge thrill following Oregon’s Marcus Mariota and the rest of the Duck Football Team through their history making 2014 season. Pac-12 Champions! National College Football Playoff winners! All the way to the National Championship Game!

Along the way, colleague Brian Davies made a wonderful image of Mariota that connected immediately with the public. Sensing a good story behind the viral image I put this piece together.

The memorial to Steve Prefontaine draws visitors young and old from all over the country to a hill above historic Hayward Field on the eve of the Olympic Trials in Eugene. (Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard)

I was fortunate to win several awards with this piece including a first places from the Oregon Newspaper and Publishers Association and the Associated Press Sports Editors. Thanks for looking.

I learned today that several photos I made and projects I was involved in won awards in the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association annual Better Newspaper Contest.

The Register-Guard staff took third in the Photo Essay category for images made during the funeral for Eugene Police Officer Chris Kilcullen who was killed in the line of duty last year. The RG also received a first for “Road to Natty” a web blog that Mark Baker, Rob Romig and I put together chronicling the Duck Football Team’s trip to the National Championship Game in 2011. And lastly I joined a RG sweep of the sports category with a 2nd place win for a game clinching fumble recovery by the Ducks against Stanford that lead to their 3rd trip to the Rose Bowl.

I spent an enjoyable morning recently talking about photojournalism and showing some of my work to a group of 5th graders in Sean Ferrarese’s class at Creslane Elementary School. They turned the table on me, posting a picture and a short story to their class website. Visit their blog here.

Remember the Judgment Day prediction? An image I shot back in May was selected for the Wall Street Journal’s Photos of the Year gallery. With all the other crazy things that happened in 2011 I forgot about it myself. 😉